One of the biggest surprises from the weekend was not only the appearance of the international megacorp Sony, but also the product brought along in tow. Of equal interest was the most recent update to Schiit Audio's mid-tier Bifrost 2 DAC partnered with Salk Sound.

After the welcome media day bonanza, it was time to get down to business in some listening demos. Along with several large meeting rooms, the sleeping-stye tower housed multiple floors of hi-fi waiting with eager transducers. It was among these halls that I crossed paths with another revealing A/B from the UK-based music server maker Innous.

Aside from the usual show conversation pieces, Rocky Mountain Audio Fest was proceeding in Denver as planned. The new digs included a much larger overall space, sprawling across multiple convention-type halls. By the end of the Thursday media day, it was clear that it would take no effort to reach 10,000 steps in your Fitbit.

I had a friend who would chuckle at me every time I put an LP on my turntable. I would use a soft dust-brush to wipe down the record, then give it a zap with an antistatic gun before I dropped the just-cleaned stylus… this he thought was humorous because of my preoccupation with keeping the album as quiet as possible for playback.

This year sees a venue change and a scheduling change for the always popular Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. RMAF has moved from familiar digs at the Denver Marriott Tech Centre to the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Centre and upped its timeline from October to September 6-8 for 2019.

The T+A MP 2000 R MKII utilizes four PCM1795 D/A chipsets in the 2000 R MKII which offers up a total of eight 32-bit/384kSps Sigma-Delta DACs to tap for conversion duties (four per channel) in what T+A calls a “double-differential quadruple-converter” setup with separate and individually optimized PCM and DSD (true one-bit DSD512) pathways within the circuit architecture.

I thought LPs were getting pricey. I mean, I was kinda counting on my album collection going up in value over the next several years, but not my CD collection. Who could have guessed in 2003 that box set of six CDs by the British experimental electronic duo Coil would be going for more than $3k – $3,226 USD to be exact – in 2019 on the audio recordings database/marketplace website Discogs.